We begin by exploring the breath and the many ways it reflects physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual patterns in your life. Then, I will teach you simple, practical and effective breathing practices — tailored just for you! — that you can practice on your own, to help you understand and release bad breathing habits, deal more effectively with stress-related and emotional symptoms, and reclaim your own open, natural, healthy breath. When you are ready for the next step, we will shift to somatic breath therapy — a conscious, connected, relaxed, diaphragmatic breath, freeing your bodymind from deep physical, emotional, and energetic patterns of contraction and trauma, and opening a space for your natural organismic breath and your heart's deepest wisdom to emerge. The breathwork portion of each session is typically 45-75 minutes, using artfully designed music, verbal coaching, and skillful, respectful touch to support the breath in breaking free!

What Makes your Conscious Breathing Work Unique?

I am a trainer and practitioner in Somatic Breath Coaching and Somatic Breath Therapy, a form of Conscious Breathing that draws upon the most powerful discoveries of rebirthing, holotropic, transformational, therapeutic, Middendorf, Buteyko, and yogic breathwork.

Somatic Breath Therapy:

Builds upon the basic foundation of Mindfulness, cultivating deeply embodied and compassionate presence.

Can be delivered without touch (SBC) or with Touch (SBT), depending on the client, provider and situation; every person’s breathing, and life, are unique!

Supports clients in re-engaging with their body’s stories in a safe, supportive and integrative environment that does not necessarily require re-experiencing past trauma.

Teaches practitioners to synchronize their body awareness with their clients’ by breathing with them during key moments in the session, maintaining an emotionally and somatically attuned relationship.

Embraces and collaborates with a “third thing”, which we call Body Breathing Interactive Intelligence (BBQ) (sometimes referred to as Spirit of Breath) as an integral aspect that guides the maximum healing benefit.

Makes an important distinction between authentic emotional release and dramatic expression. Authentic release coupled with relaxed breathing can produce lasting healing benefits, while dramatic expression only offers a temporary reduction of emotional intensity. We train practitioners to feel and know the difference.

Addresses both the client’s state of consciousness – the ‘aha’s or insights that are triggered by healing experiences – and the client’s stage of development. We believe that both are important to sustained healing and transformation.

My own work also draws upon traditional shamanic healing practices drawn from twenty-five years of working with indigenous elders and mystics around the world. Guided by the deep wisdom of your breath, I use energy work, skillful and respectful touch, sound, movement, and the simple elements of the natural world, to help you transform wounds, habits, reactions and beliefs stored in the body, and set yourself free to create an extraordinary life. As you rediscover the power of your authentic breath, It is possible for you to experience in your own body that you have never truly been separate, unsupported, broken or alone . . . that you are truly free and absolutely loved.